Capsizing Ships might become the norm.

In less than a week, I have noted 3 ships capsizing, 1 in Baja, MX, July 4th.....another in Jayapura, Papua and the most recent in Russia in the Volga River.

Across the globe we hear more and more stories of fisherman who can't bring their boats out to do their work. The seas are angry and unpredictable. Here''s another story of a fishing boat carrying 27 tourists with 16 Mexican crew members struggling in the sea when the ship capsized.

California residents rescued in fatal boat accident in Mexico

July 4, 2011 | 1:33pm

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One person was reported dead and seven others missing Monday afternoon after a fishing boat carrying 27 U.S. tourists and 16 Mexican crew members capsized in rough seas in the Sea of Cortez, officials said.

The 27 tourists, most of them from California, were aboard the charter vessel Erick when a sudden storm struck the area about 2:30 a.m., hurling people into the ocean in the vicinity of San Luis Island, about 60 miles south of the Baja California port of San Felipe, the Mexican Navy said in a statement. The body water in which the ship capsized is also known as the Gulf of California.

"The weather was calm, and then a strong wind came," Dora Winkler, a spokeswoman with the Port of San Felipe, told the Los Angeles Times.

Some of the first people rescued -- two tourists and the boat's cook -- were plucked from the water by a Mexican fishing boat, according to Winkler.

All of the 16 Mexican crew members were rescued, she said. The tourist who died was only identified as an adult male. Initial reports said six people were missing; officials later raised the number to seven.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter from San Diego was assisting the Mexican navy as rescue crews scoured the area for survivors, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Pamela Boehland.

She said the Coast Guard was told by the Mexican Navy that most of the passengers were from Northern California and that one was from Port Angeles, Wash. The search was launched after one of the victims swam to shore and alerted Mexican officials, Boehland said.

"He swam to shore and actually walked to the nearest location," Boehland said, adding that she was unsure whether it was a town or village.

Mexican officials said all of the survivors were wearing life jackets. They were taken to local hospitals and appeared to be in good condition, the Mexican Navy said.

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Turkish cargo vessel sinks off Istanbul coast

Vessel with 10 crew members onboard sinks seven miles off Istanbul’s Sile district on Black Sea coast

ANKARA

01.11.2017

A Turkish cargo vessel with 10 crew members onboard sank seven miles off Istanbul’s Sile district on Black Sea coast on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications.

The statement by the Transport Ministry said 78.5 meter-long vessel named Bilal Bal sent a distress signal early morning, while it was transporting iron ore from Marmara port in northwestern Bursa's Gemlik district to northern Black Sea port in Zonguldak’s Eregli district.

“Search and rescue efforts are ongoing jointly by the Coast Guard Command, Directorate General of Coastal Safety and Naval Forces Command,” it added.

A coast guard aircraft, a helicopter and two boats of the Coast Guard Command; five rescue boats of the Directorate General of Coastal Safety; and a submarine rescue vessel took part in the rescue efforts, the statement said.

It also said that a life buoy, life raft, life boat and a rubber rescue boat belonging to the vessel, which sank seven miles off the Sile coast to the depth of 88 meters, were found during the efforts.

Coordinated and intense search and rescue efforts are ongoing, according to the statement.

The UN refugee agency said survivors told its staff that 42 people from six families left on a fishing boat in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state around 2 a.m. Tuesday. The boat hit rough seas and capsized, trapping people underneath, the agency said in a statement.

More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have reached refugee camps in Bangladesh since Myanmar's security forces launched operations Aug. 25 that the United Nations and others have described as "ethnic cleansing."

About 190 people trying to flee have died in boat accidents in the Bay of Bengal or nearby waterways.

ELEVEN people, including six children, were rescued while two remain missing as two boats separately capsized off Basilan province amid the inclement weather condition, the Philippine Coast Guard disclosed Saturday. Lieutenant Commander (LCdr.) Alvin Dagalea, Zamboanga Coastguard Station commander, said nine of them were rescued around 12 noon Friday near Baluk-Baluk, an island village in the municipality of Hadji Muhtamad. Dagalea said they comprised of three adults--two females and one male--and six children--two females and four males. Dagalea said they were rescued by a motorboat named Superfadz skippered by Najer Saabdullah of Isabela City, Basilan. Dagalea said Saabdullah was sailing to Isabela City when the latter spotted and rescued the victims drifting near Baluk-Baluk Island.

The victims departed Dasalan Island, Hadji Muhtamad aboard F/B Jolina en route to Isabela City around 8 a.m. Friday. They revealed that F/B Jolina capsized around 10 a.m. after they were battered by big waves coupled with strong winds. The victims managed to stayed together while drifting at sea until Saabdullah rescued them. They arrived the port of Isabela City around 4 p.m. and immediately proceeded to the Coastguard Sub-Station. Dagalea said the sub-station personnel coordinated with the Isabela City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and brought the rescued victims to the hospital for medical check-up. Dagalea said the other two who were rescued and the two missing were all crewmen of a light boat of the Sunrise fishing firm that capsized around 9 a.m. Saturday also near Baluk-Baluk Island. He said the light boat with four crew capsized after it was battered by big waves coupled with strong winds spawned by inclement weather condition. He said two of the crew were already rescued by the sister ship of the ill-fated light boat. Still missing were the boat’s skipper and chief mate. He said they have launched search and rescue operation to locate and safely recover them. He said coordination and monitoring has also been undertaken in a bid to rescue the two missing crew of the locally-based Sunrise fishing company. Western Mindanao had been experiencing inclement weather condition the past days due to the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and with the entry of Typhoon Paolo into country.

The Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Emerald Star sank some 600 km south of Ishigaki island of Okinawa prefecture early Friday.

Japan’s 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters based in Naha, Okinawa, said earlier that it received an emergency call from the 33,205-tonne the ship around 2 a.m. local time (5 p.m. GMT Thursday) on Friday.

The Japan Coast Guard said it had dispatched patrol boats and aircraft to rescue the missing crew, but the operations were hampered by a raging typhoon.

According to Kumar’s statement, 11 crew members were rescued by the ship Densa Cobra, registered in Xiamen, China, and five more by Samarinda, registered in the Philippines.

Scores of Rohingya feared drowned after boat capsizes

Coast Guard saves 6 from capsized boats near North Carolina

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — The Coast Guard has rescued six people from two boats that capsized near the North Carolina coast

Local media reported the Coast Guard rescued a man whose 23-foot (7-meter) boat capsized near the Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune on Saturday. The Coast Guard sent a crew from Emerald Isle and rescued a man sitting on top of the overturned boat. A second man swam ashore before the Coast Guard arrived

The Coast Guard also rescued five passengers from a 54-foot (16-meter) fishing boat that flipped in Oregon Inlet late Saturday afternoon

Coast Guard crews from Nags Head responded to that request for help. All five people were wearing life jackets. One woman was flown to a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, for treatment of a back injury

18 dead in Brazil boat accident, 2nd fatal sinking this week

The accident took place two days after a passenger boat sank north of Para, leaving 21 dead

Updated: August 25, 2017, 9:59 am

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A commuter boat carrying more than 100 passengers flipped and sank Thursday in northeast Brazil, killing at least 18 people and leaving dozens missing in rough ocean waters.

It was the second fatal accident involving passenger boats this week in the South American nation, where aquatic travel of all kinds is common.

Navy Lt. Col. Flavio Almeida told The Associated Press that the vessel went down in the morning while traversing the Bay of All Saints off the coast of the city of Salvador.

Twenty-one people were rescued by naval teams, and private boats also motored in and helped an unknown number of survivors.

“Some passengers were able to swim to shore. Others were picked up,” Almeida said. “An investigation into what happened will be launched, but at this point we are still in the middle of the rescue.”

Authorities reported earlier that 22 people had died but later lowered the toll to 18.

Globo News showed rescuers pulling people from the bay and anxious family members waiting for news in the Salvador terminal where the boat was expected.

In a statement the Bahia state health department said 34 people were being treated for injuries. An unconscious 1-year-old who initially responded to resuscitation efforts died in an ambulance en route to a hospital, it added.

Survivor Edvaldo Santos de Almeida told the G1 news portal that a large wave tipped the boat during a heavy rainstorm.

“There were a lot of people” on board, he said. “It took a long time to be rescued. We were in the water for two hours.”

Authorities said there were 120 people on board when the boat sank.

Matheus Ramos told the daily newspaper Folha de S. Paulo he was sitting down the boat suddenly flipped on top of him, banging his left shoulder.

“When I came up, a tarp was on top of my face,” Ramos said. “I had to rip it to breathe.”

Salvador, one of Brazil’s most famous cities, is located on a peninsula near a handful of islands. Each day thousands of workers, students and other people commute on boats between the city and the islands.

The vessel was traveling between Vera Cruz on Itaparica Island and Salvador, about an 8-mile (13-kilometer) stretch.

The accident took place two days after a passenger boat sank on the Xingu River in the northern state of Para, leaving at least 21 dead.

Authorities initially said more than 70 were on that boat when it sank late Tuesday. But on Thursday, as recovery efforts continued, authorities revised the number of passengers down to 48. Of those, 23 had been rescued, meaning at least four were still missing.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on Aug. 21.

There are currently 10 Sailors missing and five injured. Four of the injured were medically evacuated for non-life threatening injuries. The fifth injured Sailor does not require further medical attention.

The collision was reported at 6:24 a.m. Japan Standard Time, while the ship was transiting to a routine port visit in Singapore.

The ship is currently sailing under its own power and heading to Changi Naval Base.

Search and rescue efforts are underway in coordination with local authorities